How to Pick A Cooling Tower: Choosing a Fan Driver

How to Pick A Cooling Tower: Choosing a Fan Driver

Every cooling tower has a fan (or fans if it includes multiple cells) and these fans require some sort of mechanism or “driver” to transfer energy from the motor to the actual fan. This transfer can be…

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How to Pick a Cooling Tower: Comparing Open and Closed Loop Towers

“Would my project be better served by an open loop cooling tower or a closed loop cooling tower?”

It’s a question that anyone in the early stages of designing a hydronic system that requires heat rejection is certain to ask. The answer is partly intuitive but also based o…

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New Series Introduction: How to Pick a Cooling Tower

New Series Introduction:  How to Pick a Cooling Tower

Cooling towers come in many different shapes, sizes and configurations. So, with so many choices, how does one decide which is right for a given application? With this series, “How to Pick a Cooling Tower” we are…

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Parallel Pumping in Condenser Applications: Part 5 of 5

Parallel Pumping in Condenser Applications: Part 5 of 5

Over the last few weeks the we’ve looked at pumping issues with multiple condensers and pumps.  We have received questions about the topic, including these two:

Why do I need cooling tower outlet On-Off valves if I have an equalizing line?

Why do we see outlet On-Off valves on almost all jobs in North Carolina and only half the jobs in Michigan and Northern Ohio?

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